Yedidia Ernest Blokh

Testimony of Yedidia Ernest Bloch, born in Zvolen, Czechoslovakia, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Slovak National Uprising, the underground, prison, Novaki and other places Life before the war; attends school; Jewish community; activities in a youth movement; displays of antisemitism. Participation in the Slovak National Uprising, August 1944; combat in the mountains; builds bunkers; meets Soviet partisans; food shortage; work selling an underground newspaper; capture by the Germans; detention in prison; murder of his father and brother; deportation to Novaki; camp life including forced labor; transfer on foot in the direction of Austria; concentration of the POWs in a movie theater; air-raids; crosses a river in rubber boats; escape; in hiding in a forest; work taking care of horses; liberation. Return to Zvolen; reunion with his brother and sister; medical studies in Prague; attempt to set sail to Eretz Israel in a sailboat; detention by the Bulgarian police; return to Slovakia; aliya of his mother and sister to Eretz Israel; aliya to Israel, 1962.